Posted on 03/08/2011 3:08:04 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
During the chaotic days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Basim Elkarra was passing by an Islamic school in Sacramento when he did a double-take: The windows were covered with thousands of origami paper cranes - peace symbols that had been folded and donated by Japanese Americans.
Amid the anger and suspicions being aimed at Muslims at that time, the show of support "was a powerful symbol that no one will ever forget," said Elkarra, a Muslim American community leader in California.
It was also the beginning of an unlikely bond between the two groups that has intensified as House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) prepares to launch a series of controversial hearings Thursday on radical Islam in the United States.
Spurred by memories of the World War II-era roundup and internment of 110,000 of their own people, Japanese Americans, especially on the West Coast, have been among the most vocal and passionate supporters of embattled Muslims. They've rallied public support against hate crimes at mosques, signed on to legal briefs opposing the indefinite detention of Muslims by the government, organized cross-cultural trips to the Manzanar internment camp memorial in California and held "Bridging Communities" workshops in Islamic schools and on college campuses.
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FDR didn’t have any hearings, he just rounded them up. Had they held hearings, there might have been another outcome.
So its apples and oranges.
In this case, we have the constant problem of muslims obstructing the war effort, aiding and abetting the jihadists, and even muslims in uniform attacking their fellow soldiers. That didn’t happen in the case of the japanese. So, again, apples and oranges.
And Hamas and Kassam Brigades forums overflow with white doves, when it's not stolen and genocidal Disney figures. These people are obscene.
O.K. So, let me get this straight, the Muslims are saying King is sinister? Now that’s funny!
bfl
Like the Rabbis who support George Soros, there’s always a little clutch of Victims Who Represent All Victims available. There’s probably a talent agency somewhere that brokers their services.
A few years ago, Spike TV had a series which pitted historical 'badass' groups against each other. "Deadliest Warrior." One example was the IRA vs the Taliban (IRA victorious.) Another was Japanese Samurai vs Vikings. Pretty interesting stuff.
These “Japanese Americans” are actually a small special interest group with a Leftist political agenda in the back pockets of the Democrat party. They do NOT speak for EVERY Japanese-American anymore than Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton speaks for every African-American. In fact, probably even LESS so than that.
Questioning members of the Islamic community in America IS NOT rounding them all up and putting them in detention centers as happened to Japanese Americans during WWII. And considering that we are at war with Islamofascism, and that there is FAR MORE evidence that Muslims in the US ARE hostile to us than that Japanese Americans here during WWII ever were, I think it’s probably WISE that Rep. Peter King and Congress seek answers from Muslims.
For whatever reason, I think many (most?) Japanese hyphenated Americans support liberal Democrats. I look here in the Bay Area and you have leftists such as Honda, Matsui, and the former Congressman Minetta - these are all extreme leftists. The last one with decent ethics was the honorable SI Hayakawa -- but that was around 30 years ago. My close friend (College roommate) and his Mom are fairly conservative -- but I believe the interment experience has left some scars (albeit not enough to vote lefty)...
Crap happens. Sure, I wish we hadn't interned American citizens - but to be fair, I can understand it. We just had our Pacific fleet sunk; the Japanese had taken over the Philippines and imprisoned many American soldiers ... it really wasn't a time for rational, calm, thinking. The focus was to win the war. I wish we hadn't gone the interment route -- but its easy to play Monday morning quarterback some 70 years after Pearl Harbor and Corregidor. I don't condemn those who made the decision (although I'm no FDR fan) - they were living in tough times. And they won the war.
You had to do it, didn’t you! LOL
My daughter said their strongest bond is as kamikaze fighters. ;-)
Somebody had to...
(Almost) Nothing could blow them apart.
We laughed!
9/11 was very WWII kamikaze style. The Japanese were brutal and so are muslims. They understand one another.
It’s very hard to defend against people willing to kill themselves to fight against you.
Unless their fighting forces just keep doing it and doing it....
But we aren’t going to be that fortunate. They have discovered IEDs and cellphones.
Yeah. I think the next attack will be more sophisticated.
“I think the next attack will be more sophisticated.”
Possibly, but it doesn’t get more involved than actually traveling to the target nation, going to school to learn how to fly a plane (did you see the cardboard mockups those nuts had in their hotel room of the airline console?), and taking the time to actually send back your unused expense money before going on the one-way mission...
They didn’t actually expect the Towers to collapse. They’ll want to top that.
How many Japanese-Americans that were interned returned to Japan after the war? Do these groups also commemorate what Japan did in Nanking? It was much worse than internment, which is given a lopsided treatment in our history books. While indefensible today, it should be viewed in the historical context where Japanese troops held Alaskan islands for years during the war, and unlike the European front we had no Soviet allies against the Japanese.
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